Modern home networks have reached a point where internet bandwidth is rarely the problem anymore. Most people have several hundred Mbps of total bandwidth, with 300Mbps as the median broadband speed in the US. So, if you still see your smart TV buffering your Netflix stream, blaming your ISP or plan speed doesn't help.

Having spent years building, configuring, and disassembling multiple home servers, I’ve grown out of the misconception that cheap systems aren’t ideal for self-hosting tasks. That said, there are a handful of services where I prefer my expensive PCs. LLMs, especially bulky MoE models, are best run on a system armed with a powerful Nvidia graphics card and ample system RAM. Likewise, I prefer using a dedicated GPU with my Immich container, as it can drive the image manager’s machine learning tasks without tanking their performance.

A24 pissed off one of the internet's largest horror communities when it announced it was working on an SCP Foundation film, but apparently hadn't bothered to contact the SCP Wiki team, nor did it commit to releasing it under a Creative Commons license as required. Seeing an easy PR win, Neon is cashing in by announcing it's making its own SCP movie. But unlike A24, it proactively reached out to the SCP Foundation Wiki team and has pledged to release it under the Creative Commons ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license.This is not an "official" SCP film. None of the wiki's staff is involved in the writing or production, it is not receiving compensati …Read the full story at The Verge.

Initially, you'd scroll through social media (or Google) and come across the occasional AI tip or clever prompt someone swore changed their workflow. Occasional is, well, no longer the word I'd use. Now, every other person is a self-proclaimed AI expert. You'll find endless advice on how the right prompt should be structured, what features should be enabled and disabled, which tools you absolutely need to install, and which workflows will supposedly turn an AI coding agent from decent into indispensable.

It seems like every other day, I find new games to inject DLSS 5 into. Whether it's by forcing DLSS 5 through ReShade or replacing a game's DLSS files with the Neural Rendering variants, it's been an absolute joy to see my childhood games transform in real time. After all, that's what DLSS 5 has been doing — "transforming" old games and basically handing out free remasters.

I'll be honest with you: while everyone else is getting ready to dive into Final Fantasy XIV's upcoming expansion Evercold, I'm still stuck on the latter half of Endwalker. Part of the reason is that Final Fantasy XI has been taking up all my MMO time. What can I say? It still holds up even today.

Claude Code started out in the terminal, and it's still where most of the talk about it happens. Most of the guides out there assume you're sitting in front of a black window with a blinking cursor, all while the Code tab in the desktop app gets treated as the softer option for people who haven't made the jump yet. I think this is a pretty fair assessment in general since developers already live in the terminal, so a tool that meets them there makes sense.

To say that the Halo series has struggled over the past few years would be a significant understatement. In fact, the iconic franchise has faced so many issues that Microsoft recently basically shut down Halo Studios (formerly 343 Industries) and handed over the series' development to Activision.

I've been using Docker for years. It's what enables my entire smart home stack and all the other software bits and bobs that I run. While I can manage Docker from the CLI just fine, a great graphical interface has become less of a luxury and more of an everyday convenience. It makes it easy to see what's running, restart a stack and check the logs.

Sam Altman onstage at OpenAI’s DevDay 2026. | Photo: Hayden Field / The Verge While AI has made plenty of inroads on people's phones and computers, it's largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI companies, Meta and OpenAI, will attempt to change that. And they're apparently betting on a similar path: testing appetites for physical hardware with their cutesy software agents. "Hardware is hard" is a tech industry mantra. Dedicated AI devices like the Friend and Humane AI Pin have inspired mainly frustration and backlash, which may only worsen as public anger toward AI grows. Meta and OpenAI, however, are both pushing ahead. OpenAI is working with famed ex-Apple designer Jony Ive and pla …Read the full story at The Verge.

Google today revealed its next AI frontier model, which it's calling Gemini 4 Argon. The new model delivers "frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense," according to chief AI architect and Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu. But the company is limiting access at first to a "set of trusted cyber defenders," and Kavukcuoglu says that Google is "actively engaged in the U.S. government's voluntary process for pre-release model access while we gradually expand access."Kavukcuoglu says Gemini 4 Argon is already powering Google's …Read the full story at The Verge.

We're getting to the point where AI companies can no longer hand out LLMs to the general public. A year or two ago, we saw them push out new models all the time and watched users put them to work; these days, though, the models can be so powerful that they need extensive testing and guardrails before they're given to the public.